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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
On the video-sharing service YouTube, the practice of subscribing to a person's channel in exchange for said person mutually subscribing back to one's channel, often with the goal of artificially inflating one's subscriber count.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, uncountable
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History
Abbreviation of subscribe for a subscription back or a similar phrasing, otherwise analysable as sub (“a subscription”) + 4 (“abbreviation of for”) + sub (“a subscription”). Compare follow4follow.
